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Have you ever felt that you knew what someone was going to say just before he said it?

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Or have you ever stepped into a strange room and had the sensation you'd been there before?

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If you have, you've taken a small step beyond.

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Now watch a giant step.

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It begins here, in Wandsworth Prison near London.

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Year, 1895.

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Our principal player is one John Marriott.

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Today is a big day in his life.

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He's to be hacked.

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Come on now then, Johnny lad, no need for you to look at that, you know.

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Here.

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Have a smoke.

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Come on, Johnny boy, your go.

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It's hot in here.

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It's hot.

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Why not?

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When do they come for me?

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The sixth.

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What time is it now?

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I don't know, 5.30.

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Does it take long?

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What?

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Oh, nah.

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How long?

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How long?

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Well, I don't know, a couple of minutes maybe.

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Now come on, Johnny me boy, there's no need for you to be afraid.

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Who's afraid?

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Well, a bloke as popular with the ladies as what you want.

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What do you mean, was?

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I don't judge it.

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I am the executioner, sir, at your service.

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This is my assistant.

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It's not time, is it?

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You're quite correct, sir.

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You have exactly 21 minutes.

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Sir.

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Will you please step on this scale there?

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What do you need my weight for?

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11 stone, sir.

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11 stone.

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71 inches.

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71 inches.

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Thank you, John Marriott.

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Thank you.

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Breakfast here, Johnny boy.

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Don't want it.

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It's your very last breakfast.

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Take that slop away, I don't want it.

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I can't look at it.

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I told you.

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Are you all right, my son?

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Is there anything I can do for you?

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Anything you wish?

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Any final confession you want to make?

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She just sat there.

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With her head thrown back, laughing at me like I was some kind of worm or something.

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I didn't mean to kill her, I swear.

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I didn't.

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But the way she laughed when I caught her with that dandy beluga, it's...

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All I could see was her throat.

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I just grabbed it.

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I grabbed it.

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And all the time she kept laughing.

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Her mouth.

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Her voice.

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I can hear it now.

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Screaming.

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My hand scratching at me.

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Well, maybe she wasn't laughing.

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Maybe she was only screaming.

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Sure, there was fellow Gishy scream and there was Paddy O'Neil and everybody in London knows all about that.

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It was like a bomb exploding in my ear.

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I fell and went out of my mind.

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The Lord is merciful to all his poor sinners.

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I know, I know I'm a sinner.

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I know.

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The things I've done, really, if I ever really started to confess.

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You know what I've done once?

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I never told nobody this.

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I pushed a blind beggar into the gutter and I rubbed his tink up.

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I gave him a piece.

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Eight pennies and four shillings and off a crown.

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I meant to pay him back every cent but I never did.

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I went to Epsoms and I laid a wager on a nag named Alma's eyes.

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That nag is still running.

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There was this sweet old lady there and she'd never seen a race before so I swapped my ticket with hers and hers was a winner.

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I paid 15 to 1.

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That week I crawled through every pub from mere to white all.

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That was the week I met Alma.

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I know I never should have touched that blind man.

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I never should have touched Alma.

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The things I do because a lady has a pretty pair of eyes.

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But I can't help myself.

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Please.

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Please don't abandon me.

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You must be brave, my son.

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Please.

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John Marriott, send your people.

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Pray.

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Pray.

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I can't.

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Cry, Madge.

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I can't.

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I can't.

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I can't.

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I don't want to die.

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No.

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I don't want to die.

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No.

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No.

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No.

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I don't want to die.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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a really I don't I've been the executioner for nineteen years and it's never

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happened before so we examine that very thoroughly as we always do how is he

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doctor always coming around it was merely shot with no physical damage at all I

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apply certain I then let's get on with the execution.

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You're wasting it some government. If you think that I'm going to die on your

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blouse to gallows you've got another thing coming because I'm not. I'm sorry about

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the accident but the court has sentenced you to be hanged but that's the point

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governor wasn't no accident let's get on with it.

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Thank you know for the year can kill me. I've got tried for hundred years and

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a hundred ways not you. Not the executioner.

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Not nobody I said let's get on with it. I'm going to do

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I mean without giving me any doubt. I thought you said you didn't want any.

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Time now see for a man to miss his breakfast all right but hurry.

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It. Oh good I have not a meal like this since

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a trial.

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You've got some knowledge of

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a man trying to start his property would you stand please. I don't mind.

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I. You've got to just waste any time. If you want to know why I tell you.

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Don't you forget to have

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a nice lunch waiting for me I want from Rolly Polly pie I was me brandy I want me

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brandy I want me brandy what kind of hanging it was only over that I've got because I

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got.

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Back. More floating socks off

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a nine ten eleven twelve. That's my lucky move.

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Oh no I don't want that you show you don't want to go out make it easy for you I

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don't need it any easier my. This time just to make sure we'll try it once more.

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Or. That he.

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You're wasting your time for. You sure you don't want to go.

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Know I don't want to. Go a little to the left. Getting so good at this job I think

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I might become the executioner execution. I. Think.

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Music. I tell

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you I think you're going. To me to give.

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You.

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a cell. The man who can't be. But

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why. Why do you think they're unable to hang you Mr Marriott. Maybe there's

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a good angel watching over me more than likely the devil I'd say I don't much mind

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he's watching over me angel or devil just so long as it's somebody with influence

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as a matter of fact quite a lot of people with influence are interested in you Mr

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Marriott. Your case has been debated right now the House of Commons Mr Glass

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stone thinks that you should be set free that you've suffered enough. Well now that

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makes two of us. Seriously Mr Marriott don't you have some theory as to why you

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couldn't be hanged. I know why I couldn't be hanged and if one of your iron mighty

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papers is willing to pay. Five hundred quid for the information five hundred pounds.

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That's not very likely. And I'm not very likely to tell.

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I'll wait till you wait to see me go I got. I hate to see anyone make justice look

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foolish Oh come now governor don't take on so if you was to put me up on that

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a gallop fifty times you still couldn't hang me I go on home at it. You want to

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know that I mean that doesn't I'd be glad to oblige get out of here. You're smart

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not to take me up that was our windshield on standing here. Now I know.

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You listen and I'll tell you. Just when they would.

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When they was pulling that over my head and the rope snapped. I saw all John

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Marriott was going to die. And it wasn't on no gallows. I said get out.

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It's your job that man go home with you. I'm going to die in a most amazing way

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governor. In a most. Remarkable way.

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To. Let them go to the. You know when they take you to the gallows.

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Office your glass of brandy I. Bet you have the old potluck Johnny.

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You should have seen that face when I'm going to. Move and execute.

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That release both so I thought he'd have a stroke you with that noose around your

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neck but you scared scared what for they could name me on a big dry children.

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Oh come on Johnny how could you know.

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I could you know. Devil itself. Whispered in my.

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Johnny. Where have you been oh you're blooming like a rose you know.

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Did you miss me while I was.

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On the way. To.

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Wales George he wants to live and one for will when he gets you. Well.

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I was about. To know I'm going to die I figured it's only one way I can die

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one way and no other. Around.

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All the press over me five hundred quid I won't charge you a. Old Johnny man it's

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going to die out of a line. Right here on the streets of London.

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That's how it's going to be I know I was standing there on them gallows I was

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standing there with a white over my head and I heard a police deliver and I heard

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them trap doors swing open and I felt myself and while I was falling inside of

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that old lit up like a million candles and then I was lying dead in the field

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alive. Right here on the streets of London. And I knew. I knew that's how it had to

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be that way and no other.

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Turn around John. I'm a little Georgie if you think you can kill my sister and go

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scot free you've got another thing coming. Too much head on that I told you and

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around John or I'll shoot you right in the back. That's better Georgie.

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Hey. You know you know Al McCooper that girl what I find gold what I hear are

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brothers looking for revenge now you tell him what you tell him that if I'm

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a little alive I kill him again right now right. She deserved everything she got.

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And you deserve what you're going to get John Marriott.

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But dang well. You couldn't have me you could have me with a couple of all of

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the old regiment of thirty years the back you up you couldn't have me unless you

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could bring the jungle to Africa.

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And Africa. I lift up that pistol on. Your.

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Back.

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On. Some. What is it.

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Now what's wrong what's everybody looking at me like that all the time from school.

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To. What's your. Blood.

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Yes. And when I lie and I'm the catcher up with me.

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You. Are. The devil himself.

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Not a lot of you. Every one of your rock.

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Rock. I'm no more

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than you are you're all going to die same as me only difference is I know.

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How. Did it.

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You can join

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Will face any lion, living or dead, and spit in his blooming eye.

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Hello! Hello.

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Oh, there you are, you beast.

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Oh, big angel.

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Big angel.

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I suppose if you got me in your jaws, there wouldn't be much left now, would there?

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You've got to do me, you do me now, eh?

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Come on.

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Stand up. Stand up.

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Well, I'm feeling a bit thirsty, so...

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Dr. Old Clash.

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What are you doing here, big owl?

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Hey, come here, you. Come here.

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Come here.

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Hey, come back here.

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Come back here. Hey!

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Come back!

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He's broke his blooming neck. He's stone dead.

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You find them all over London.

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The symbol of Britain, you know.

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The End